From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2002-12-15T01:58:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork

Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> writes:

> In article <873cp128ap.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com>, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>> ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
>> 
>>> i have gotten around this problem by spawning another process
>>> using the unix at command with a time of 'now'
>> 
>>     system("thecommand &")
>
> This doesn't solve the problem, which was that the child process
> inherits a lock on the pstore archive.

You are right.  Question is, should system() pass on any file
descriptors beyond stdin/stdout/stderr to the child process?
Probably.  Forking child processes within a PStore transaction is
probably just bad practice.